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iridant

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Registered: 2015-09-06

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Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

[home@bot ~]$ steam
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1440016726)

This is what happens when I attempt to run steam in the console, if I try to run it through dmenu it doesn't even flash the login screen.

It worked before for about a month and a half, and randomly just stopped working, I used a command to remove unused dependencies, but that's all I can really say.. I'm on the same drivers as well and same video card.

GTX 660 Ti
lib32-nvidia-utils
lib32-nvidia-libgl

pls help me

Last edited by iridant (2015-09-06 18:41:41)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193802

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sadger

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Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 14

Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

I'm having this problem too with the identical error. It's something to do with the 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit system. I'm not sure how to diagnose what exactly is the issue.
Like OP I have lib32-nvidia-libgl installed but steam won't launch, trying to launch a 32-bit opengl application causes an error like:

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  18
  Current serial number in output stream:  19

Would like some help too if possible on fixing it.

sadger

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

Possible problem that the lib32-nvidia-libgl version that automatically updated to is further ahead than the nvidia driver. Looking into downgrading to the right version see if it helps.

sadger

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

Ok so @iridant. I have a temporary solution that I hope will work for you. The problem I think was like I said the 32 bit nvidia drivers being too far ahead of the normal nvidia package. I installed the nvidia-beta (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-beta/) package which brought me up to version 355.11-1 in line with the lib32-nvidia package. Once I did that I can now launch steam. Hope that helps!

malchun

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Registered: 2015-09-14

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

Had the same trouble with GeForce GTX 760. @sadger's solution helped me to start steam, but now it shows only part of wallpaper. Nevertheless, thanks.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

if your lib32-nvidia drivers are higher than your nvidia drivers  you likely have multilib-testing enabled in your /etc/pacman.conf without also having testing enabled which is an unsupported configuration

malchun

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Registered: 2015-09-14

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

if your lib32-nvidia drivers are higher than your nvidia drivers  you likely have multilib-testing enabled in your /etc/pacman.conf without also having testing enabled which is an unsupported configuration

Yes, you're right (can't imagine when and why i did this). Solved?

V1del

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

I suspect some installation media accidentally had that uncommented by default, so if your install was with a relatively recent ISO it may have had this in by accident.. or you are actually not using arch and used some of the other ways of installation which are entirely unsupported here

Paplepel

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Registered: 2015-09-28

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

The same thing happened to me today when I updated the Nvidia drivers with pacman. The nvidia driver is at 355.11 and the Lib 32 driver is 352.41, steam refuses to open. I see the correct version op the lib32 driver is in the testing repo. I`ll just be patient for the rest of the day hoping the maintainer gets to update the package.

Last edited by Paplepel (2015-09-28 08:14:11)

OlliC

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Registered: 2015-09-28

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

Yeah, same problem here. package nvidia and lib32-nvidia-libgl are out of sync and 32bit opengl programs (such as steam) wont start.
How can this happen? I have no testing repos activated.

lib32-nvidia-libgl 352.41-1
nvidia 355.11-2

OlliC

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

Now it got updatet. Thanks!

V1del

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

update your mirrors this definitely isn't an issue here

Paplepel

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Re: Steam Failing to Open (Installing Breakpad Exception Handler)

I checked yesterday the lib32-nvidia-libgl 355.11 was still in testing. Was not the mirrors but the problem is resolved now.